
I Am Cuba (1964)
Mikhail Kalatozov · 141 min
I Am Cuba screens 2 times at BFI Southbank between Wednesday 19 August and Friday 28 August.
Where to watch it
BFI Southbank
Belvedere Rd, Waterloo, London SE1 8XT
I Am Cuba + intro by film curator and writer Jonathan Ali
I Am Cuba
What it is
A study in contrasts set in and around Havana that explores Cuba's 1959 revolution: a young woman's fascination with the excess of an American-owned casino leads to her downfall in the eyes of her street vendor boyfriend; a tenant farmer revolts the only way he knows how, attacking the land he works; university students gain first-hand knowledge of political upheaval; and, in the hills outside the city, the members of a poor peasant family are patriotically swept up into the burgeoning revolt.